Download Best Full-Length Audiobooks in Fiction, LGBTQ+

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Title: The Novel

Author: James A. Michener

Narrator: Alexander Adams

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 49 minutes

Release date: August 4, 2015

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In this riveting, ambitious novel from James A. Michener, the renowned chronicler of epic history turns his extraordinary imagination to a world he knew better than anyone: the world of books. Lukas Yoder, a novelist who has enjoyed a long, successful career, has finished what he believes to be his final work. Then a tragedy strikes in his community, and he becomes obsessed with writing about it. Meanwhile, Yoder’s editor fights to preserve her integrity—and her author—as her firm becomes the target of a corporate takeover; a local critic who teaches literature struggles with his ambitions and with his feelings about Yoder’s success; and a devoted reader holds the key to solving the mystery that haunts Yoder’s hometown.   Praise for The Novel   “Michener explores some of the deepest issues raised by narrative literature.”—The New York Times   “A good, old-fashioned, sink-your-teeth-into-it story . . . The Novel lets us see an unfamiliar side of the author, at the same time portraying the delicate, complex relationship among editors, agents and writers.”—The Philadelphia Inquirer   “Michener loves literature, and his information about some of his favorite reading is almost as alluring as his explanation of how to handle a manuscript.”—Associated Press   “So absorbing you simply will not want [it] to end.”—Charleston News & Courier

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Title: Under Tiberius

Author: Nick Tosches

Narrator: Jonathan Davis

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 10 hours 30 minutes

Release date: August 4, 2015

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

A work of dangerous and haunting beauty by America's last real literary outlaw. Under Tiberius is a thrilling story of crime and deceit involving the man who came to be called Jesus Christ. Deep in the recesses of the Vatican, Nick Tosches unearths a first-century memoir by Gaius Fulvius Falconius, foremost speechwriter for Emperor Tiberius. The codex is profound, proof of the existence of a Messiah who was anything but the one we've known -- a shabby and licentious thief. After encountering him in the streets of Judea, Gaius becomes spin doctor to Jesus, and the pair schemes to accrue untold riches by convincing the masses that Jesus is the Son of God. As their marriage of truth and lies is consummated, friendship and wary respect develop between these two grifters. Outrageous and disturbing, Under Tiberius is as black as the ravishing night, shot through with fierce and brilliant light.

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Title: Drums along the Mohawk

Author: Walter D. Edmonds

Narrator: Mark Bramhall

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 21 hours 0 minutes

Release date: August 4, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.83 of Total 6

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Drums along the Mohawk, Walter D. Edmonds’ masterpiece, is not only the best historical novel about upstate New York since James Fenimore Cooper, it was also number one on the bestseller list for two years, only yielding to the epic Gone with the Wind. This is the story of the forgotten pioneers of the Mohawk Valley during the Revolutionary War. Here Gilbert Martin and his young wife struggled and lived and hoped. Combating hardships almost too great to endure, they helped give to America a legend that still stirs the heart. In the midst of love and hate, life and death, danger and disaster, they stuck to the acres that were theirs and fought a war without ever quite understanding it. Drums along the Mohawk has been an American classic since its original publication in 1936.

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Title: Hawaii: A Novel

Author: James A. Michener

Narrator: Larry McKeever

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 51 hours 55 minutes

Release date: August 4, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.38 of Total 61

Ratings of Narrator: 4.25 of Total 16

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

The saga of a land from the time when the volcanic islands rose out of the sea to the decade in which they become the 50th state. Michener uses individuals' experiences to symbolize the struggle of the various races to establish themselves in the islands

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Title: The Marriage of Opposites

Author: Alice Hoffman

Narrator: Gloria Reuben, Santino Fontana, Tina Benko

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 37 minutes

Release date: August 4, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.35 of Total 78

Ratings of Narrator: 4.38 of Total 21

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

“A luminous, Marquez-esque tale” (O, The Oprah Magazine) from the New York Times bestselling author of The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on a tropical island about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro—the Father of Impressionism. Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in the early 1800s, Rachel dreams of life in faraway Paris. Rachel’s mother, a pillar of their small refugee community of Jews who escaped the Inquisition, has never forgiven her daughter for being a difficult girl who refuses to live by the rules. Growing up, Rachel’s salvation is their maid Adelle’s belief in her strengths, and her deep, life-long friendship with Jestine, Adelle’s daughter. But Rachel’s life is not her own. She is married off to a widower with three children to save her father’s business. When her older husband dies suddenly and his handsome, much younger nephew, Frédérick, arrives from France to settle the estate, Rachel seizes her own life story, beginning a defiant, passionate love affair that sparks a scandal that affects all of her family, including her favorite son, who will become one of the greatest artists of France. “A work of art” (Dallas Morning News), The Marriage of Opposites showcases the beloved, bestselling Alice Hoffman at the height of her considerable powers. “Her lush, seductive prose, and heart-pounding subject…make this latest skinny-dip in enchanted realism…the Platonic ideal of the beach read” (Slate.com). Once forgotten to history, the marriage of Rachel and Frédérick “will only renew your commitment to Hoffman’s astonishing storytelling” (USA TODAY).

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Title: Orphan #8: A Novel

Author: Kim Van Alkemade

Narrator: Ginny Auer, Andi Arndt

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 11 hours 2 minutes

Release date: August 4, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3.43 of Total 7

Ratings of Narrator: 4.5 of Total 2

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

New York Times and USA Today Bestseller In this stunning new historical novel inspired by true events, Kim van Alkemade tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish orphanage years before. In 1919, Rachel Rabinowitz is a vivacious four-year-old living with her family in a crowded tenement on New York City’s Lower Eastside. When tragedy strikes, Rachel is separated from her brother Sam and sent to a Jewish orphanage where Dr. Mildred Solomon is conducting medical research. Subjected to X-ray treatments that leave her disfigured, Rachel suffers years of cruel harassment from the other orphans. But when she turns fifteen, she runs away to Colorado hoping to find the brother she lost and discovers a family she never knew she had. Though Rachel believes she’s shut out her painful childhood memories, years later she is confronted with her dark past when she becomes a nurse at Manhattan’s Old Hebrews Home and her patient is none other than the elderly, cancer-stricken Dr. Solomon. Rachel becomes obsessed with making Dr. Solomon acknowledge, and pay for, her wrongdoing. But each passing hour Rachel spends with the old doctor reveal to Rachel the complexities of her own nature. She realizes that a person’s fate—to be one who inflicts harm or one who heals—is not always set in stone. Lush in historical detail, rich in atmosphere and based on true events, Orphan #8 is a powerful, affecting novel of the unexpected choices we are compelled to make that can shape our destinies.

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Title: The Lure of the Moonflower: A Pink Carnation Novel

Series: #12 of Pink Carnation

Author: Lauren Willig

Narrator: Kate Reading

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 13 hours 40 minutes

Release date: August 4, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 2.67 of Total 3

Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

In the final Pink Carnation novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, Napoleon has occupied Lisbon, and Jane Wooliston, aka the Pink Carnation, teams up with a rogue agent to protect the escaped Queen of Portugal.   Portugal, December 1807. Jack Reid, the British agent known as the Moonflower (formerly the French agent known as the Moonflower), has been stationed in Portugal and is awaiting his new contact. He does not expect to be paired with a woman—especially not the legendary Pink Carnation.   All of Portugal believes that the royal family departed for Brazil just before the French troops marched into Lisbon. Only the English government knows that mad seventy-three-year-old Queen Maria was spirited away by a group of loyalists determined to rally a resistance. But as the French garrison scours the countryside, it’s only a matter of time before she’s found and taken.   It’s up to Jane to find her first and ensure her safety. But she has no knowledge of Portugal or the language. Though she is loath to admit it, she needs the Moonflower. Operating alone has taught her to respect her own limitations. But she knows better than to show weakness around the Moonflower—an agent with a reputation for brilliance, a tendency toward insubordination, and a history of going rogue. READERS GUIDE INCLUDED

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Title: Alaska: A Novel

Author: James A. Michener

Narrator: Larry McKeever

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 57 hours 17 minutes

Release date: August 4, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4.36 of Total 22

Ratings of Narrator: 4.33 of Total 3

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

The high points in the story of Alaska since the American acquisition are brought vividly to life through more than 100 characters, real and fictional.

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Title: Mrs. Sinclair's Suitcase

Author: Louise Walters

Narrator: Karen Cass, Anna Bentinck

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 9 hours 52 minutes

Release date: August 4, 2015

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

A heartbreaking and deeply compelling debut, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a compulsive page-turner about thwarted love, dashed hopes, and family secrets—book-club fiction at its best.   Roberta, a lonely thirty-four-year-old bibliophile, works at The Old and New Bookshop in England. When she finds a letter inside her centenarian grandmother’s battered old suitcase that hints at a dark secret, her understanding of her family’s history is completely upturned. Running alongside Roberta’s narrative is that of her grandmother, Dorothy, as a forty-year-old childless woman desperate for motherhood during the early years of World War II. After a chance encounter with a Polish war pilot, Dorothy believes she’s finally found happiness, but must instead make an unthinkable decision whose consequences forever change the framework of her family.   The parallel stories of Roberta and Dorothy unravel over the course of eighty years as they both make their own ways through secrets, lies, sacrifices, and love. Utterly absorbing, Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase is a spellbinding tale of two worlds, one shattered by secrets and the other by the truth.

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Title: Mexico: A Novel

Author: James A. Michener

Narrator: Alexander Adams

Format: Unabridged Audiobook

Length: 23 hours 23 minutes

Release date: August 4, 2015

Ratings: Ratings of Book: 4 of Total 7

Genres: LGBTQ+

Publisher's Summary:

Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener, whose novels hurtle from the far reaches of history to the dark corners of the world, paints an intoxicating portrait of a land whose past and present are as turbulent, fascinating, and colorful as any other on Earth. When an American journalist travels to report on the upcoming duel between two great matadors, he is ultimately swept up in the dramatic story of his own Mexican ancestry—from the brilliance and brutality of the ancients, to the iron fist of the invading Spaniards, to modern Mexico, fighting through dust and bloodshed to build a nation upon the ashes of revolution. Architectural splendors, frenzied bullfights, horrific human sacrifice: Michener weaves them all into an epic human story that ranks with the best of his beloved bestselling novels.   Praise for Mexico   “Michener the storyteller at his finest . . . There are splendid and authentic scenes in the plaza de toros that are as dramatic as any written by Ernest Hemingway or Barnaby Conrad.”—The New York Times Book Review   “Astounding . . . fast-moving, intriguing . . . Michener is back in huge, familiar form with Mexico.”—Los Angeles Daily News   “An enthralling story . . . Michener artfully combines the history of Mexico with the art of bullfighting, teaching the reader about both and telling a grand story at the same time.”—St. Louis Post-Dispatch   “A novel of epic proportions, abounding in visual and historical detail.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch